1308EN12 Form A

English 12

Examination Booklet 2012/13 Released Exam

August 2013

Form A

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Contents: 19 pages 23 multiple-choice questions 3 written-response questions

Examination: 2 hours Additional Time Permitted: 60 minutes

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English 12 ? 1308 Form A

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PART A: STAND-ALONE TEXT

7 multiple-choice questions 1 written-response question Value: 23%

Suggested Time: 25 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS: Read the following poem, "Personal Helicon," and answer the multiple-choice questions. For each question, select the best answer and record your choice on the Answer Sheet provided.

In this poem, the speaker recollects his childhood experiences in the countryside. He remembers how he played around wells--shafts dug into the ground to obtain water.

Personal Helicon1

by Seamus Heaney

As a child, they could not keep me from wells And old pumps with buckets and windlasses2. I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells Of waterweed, fungus and dank moss.

5 One, in a brickyard, with a rotted board top. I savoured the rich crash when a bucket Plummeted down at the end of a rope. So deep you saw no reflection of it.

A shallow one under a dry stone ditch 10 Fructified3 like any aquarium.

When you dragged out long roots from the soft mulch A white face hovered over the bottom.

Others had echoes, gave back your own call With a clean new music in it. And one 15 Was scaresome, for there, out of ferns and tall Foxgloves, a rat slapped across my reflection.

Now to pry into roots, to finger slime, To stare, big-eyed Narcissus4, into some spring Is beneath all adult dignity. I rhyme 20 To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

1 helicon: Mount Helicon was a site in Ancient Greece where the Muses were worshipped. The Muses were believed to inspire all artists, especially poets.

2 windlass: the handle used to raise the bucket from the bottom of a well

3 fructified: productive, full of life

4 Narcissus: a young man in Greek mythology so enchanted by his own image reflected in a pool of water that he was unable to remove himself and gradually wasted away

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English 12 ? 1308 Form A

1. Which literary device is used in "trapped sky" (line 3)?

A. allusion B. analogy C. metaphor D. foreshadowing

2. What is the predominant form of imagery in "I savoured the rich crash when a bucket / Plummeted down at the end of a rope" (lines 6 and 7)?

A. taste B. sight C. smell D. sound

3. "A shallow one under a dry stone ditch Fructified like any aquarium. When you dragged out long roots from the soft mulch A white face hovered over the bottom."

In the above lines (lines 9?12), what did the speaker have to do before he could see his reflection?

A. fill in the ditch B. drain the mulch C. dig the well deeper D. clear the vegetation

4. Which word best describes how the wells appeared to the speaker as a child?

A. beautiful B. revolting C. fearsome D. captivating

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